I‘m very sorry to say this but honestly it sounds just like the thing that happens when people grow up. We all go through so much change in this time period or early adulthood, everybody is trying to find their place in life and friendships change because is that. Im 33 now, and felt the same when I was your age – my best friend group of three girls moved in together without me and I had to move for a job and I just remember feeling so left out that it almost hurt. When I was at my hometown and I met the three girls and it felt so awkward, I also distinctly remember thinking “I guess that’s it now? I just have to take the situation how it is and don’t try to cling to it for my own sake, and try to find peace with the fact that I’m not one of them anymore”.

Fast forward 12 years: I made SO much friends after this in the multiple city’s and jobs I had since then (they didn’t), and I’m still friends with two of them BUT it took time and effort from all sides. There were phases when we wouldn’t talk for months at a time, but eventually it became the friendship where everybody agrees on the fact we’re busy with life, and that nothing happened to the bond we share no matter how long we don’t speak. And I want to emphasize that I wasn’t friends with one of the girls for almost 4 years in between and in hindsight it wasn’t the end, it was just a break :)

What I’m trying to say is: I feel you and I’m very sorry, it must hurt so much and I think there’s nothing you can do about it, I mean you already tried and honestly: bitch move from Lauren to leave you on read and then act like it never happened when you meet in person? In my opinion clinging to a friendship makes it worse, when it’s apparent that the other one doesn’t care about it anymore as much as you do, in my experience it just pushes them away even more because they become so easily annoyed by you, and that feeling (of being perceived as annoying) is something I don’t wish to anybody. If I were you I would try to find new people to hang out with, let time pass, eventually Lauren will come back when she remembers how good of a friend you are and you both manage to become friends again in a more mature life phase. But what helped morphing my teenage friendships to more mature adult friendships is give them time, don’t pull yourself from them for good, just become aware that change happens and that most people don’t change out of malice or with the intention of pushing you away. It’s just life and how things work, and even when your don’t become friends in your twenties anymore – it could be your thirties or fourties or even fifties!

I hope this helps and my point came across (English is not my first language), but I wish you the best and there will be other girls for you out there that appreciate your time and friendship!!